NBA basketball rhythm monster

While Li Luoman is flying around the United States, Celtics scout Franklin Barton's recent work is not going so smoothly.

First, Li Luo directly rejected the Celtics' request for a trial.

And since individual workouts are issued in the name of the team, Barton, as a scout for another team, has no way of entering the arena.

All the information had to be obtained through information passed on by the staff in the arena, which cost a lot of money.

But Barton soon found that he no longer had to worry about this matter.

Just as Li Luo judged, when the news came out that Li Luo defeated three teams' starting power forwards in trial training, such performance had to make all parties pay more attention to Li Luo.

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A large number of reporters followed Li Luo for filming and reporting, and Button blended in easily, which made the scouting work much easier.

Li Luo's unexpectedly strong performance made the team very excited. In order to build momentum, Bill Duffy bluntly said that he could produce another Eastern champion.

The No. 1 pick? It's okay to put it in the draft in off-year years, but you don't have to think about it this year.

Li Luo knew very well that the subject of draft picks was very deep. And the old Jewish man who had been in charge of the NBA for many years never allowed others to comment on the general direction of the league's development.

This year's situation in Cleveland is the best interpretation of Stern's art of balance.

You know, Cleveland has never won a championship since the emergence of the four major American professional sports leagues.

Yes you heard it right, not once, this cursed land called professional sports is in dire need of a chosen one to save them.

And isn’t LeBron James, who was born in Ohio, the Cavaliers’ best opportunity?

You know, in order to grab the No. 1 pick, the Cavaliers in the 2002-03 season were crazy and messed up. Their entire record of 17 wins and 65 losses greatly increased the probability of the No. 1 pick.

The funniest thing is that the Cavaliers, from the head coach to the fans, whenever the team loses this year, they all happily announce that they are one step closer to LeBron James. And once they win,

The head coach's ancestors will be visited repeatedly by people, especially his grandmother.

The league is also looking forward to the scenario of a strong man coming from the sky to save the city in his hometown.

With so many factors, Li Luo can dare to say that no matter how you play the ping pong ball, even if it is played 10,000 times, it will still be Cleveland's No. 1 pick.

Without LeBron as a competitor, the main threat to Le Luo is Anthony.

Of course, because Anthony's performance in the NCAA finals was so dazzling, his score of 40 is enough to make all team managers salivate. His draft prospects are slightly better than his own.

To be on the safe side, all the trial teams selected by Li Luo were ranked 5-7.

Time passed day by day, and in late June, a few days after the Spurs won the championship in the 2002-03 season, Li Luo received two pieces of news:

Combined tryouts and lottery for league rookies.

As mentioned above, a player can choose to participate in individual workouts with each team. The choice is yours.

But no player will miss a joint trial organized by the league without any reason.

Do you dare to go? Yes, don’t blame me for taking your propaganda and whistle into consideration.

Here, all physical qualities will be judged by quantitative standards. After the static and dynamic talent evaluation, there will be a confrontation session. Basically, the talent, that is, the combat power of each rookie will be judged round after round.

You will get a clear understanding.

This has to mention Yi's operations back then. At that time, in order to cover up Yi's lack of confrontation ability, Fagan actually refused invitations to trial training from various teams, and instead invited these teams to watch Yi Jianlian's non-confrontation training.

The so-called non-confrontation training means that when Yi Jianlian is shooting and dribbling, there is no defender in front of him, only a chair facing him.

Celtics general manager Danny Ainge immediately expressed disdain, saying:

"Yi Jianlian performed well and was able to hit steadily when facing the defense of chairs."

He was nicknamed "Chair Man".

At the end of June, the joint trial training arrived as scheduled.

When Li Luo arrived at the joint training facility in New York, what was waiting for him was not an official vehicle provided by the NBA.

Anthony, who had already been in contact with Li Luo, sent someone to greet him early.

In the land of New York, society is nothing but good!

When they arrived at the joint training center, Anthony came up and gave Li Luo a bear hug.

I have to say that the defense was very successful this time. Li Luo felt the opponent's enthusiasm as soon as he came up.

"Hey! How are you doing bro? How about going to a party with my team after the trial training today?"

"No problem." Li Luo agreed readily.

You must know that a trial training generally requires you to stay in New York for several days. For Li Luo, who is somewhat short of money, although the official can provide food and accommodation, there is an acquaintance who is not familiar with the place and can take him around this big city.

The city is pretty good too.

Next, Luo Li could only lament that Anthony was worthy of being called a social melon.

Under his recommendation, Li Luo met several star players of this year.

James, Wade, and of course the familiar Kansas players Hinrich and Collison.

However, his schoolmate Ford is not here. Li Luo estimates that he must have received a draft commitment from a certain team. Could it be that he will go to the Milwaukee Bucks in this life?

Li Luo greeted everyone, and everyone responded very simply.

To a certain extent, they are actually competitors. A higher ranking means a higher salary when signing a rookie contract.

To some extent, it may even affect the value of the endorsement.

Li Luo scanned everyone one by one, but when it was James' turn, he was stared at by a person next to him.

Goodman, James' current agent, had been James' agent for several years since high school before he signed with Rich Paul.

It's not that he is so good. The reason for all this has to start with James' mother.

Speaking of James' mother, most people don't have a good impression of her.

Whether it's quarreling with players, being rude to Cavaliers management, or talking about Delonte West in James' mouth. These are all her weaknesses. It fully shows that a black woman with no education is

What kind of quality.

But one thing you have to admit is that she loves James very much.

Like most black people in the ghetto, James's mother raised James tall and strong alone when his father ran away.

And Goodman...well, the two have just lived together for many years.

Mr. Goodman has only one player in his career as an agent, and that is LeBron James. However, due to the above-mentioned chaotic relationships, this Goodman is obviously not satisfied with participating in LeBron James as an agent.

Brown James's career. He frequently intervened in LeBron's choices as the self-proclaimed "godfather".

His standards were not good and he became increasingly greedy. In the end, James couldn't bear it anymore and parted ways with his agent Goodman.

Now, this narrow-minded agent is obviously somewhat hostile to everyone. It seems that he may be threatening LeBron's draft stock.

Li Luo couldn't help but want to laugh when he thought of this, and even couldn't help but want to tell them in advance:

"Don't worry, James' draft pick is very stable."